Signs of Life 2004
In a musical age suffused with irony, Ron Sexsmith is one of the courageous few who dares take a simple truth... read more
Signs of Life 2004
Their newest album appearing an obvious choice for top honors, Bono and associates have successfully... read more
Signs of Life 2004
After weeks of deliberation, it's finally here: Paste's Signs of Life list of the finest music we've heard this year... read more
Signs of Life 2004
Sam Roberts not only swept Canada’s Juno Awards; his newest album, We Were Born In A Flame, swept us off our collective feet... read more
Signs of Life 2004
It wasn't altogether certain whether Iron & Wine's sophomore album, suffused with Brian Deck’s production crispness, would be able to convey the intimacy... read more
Sings of Life 2004
With this its sophomore effort, everyone’s favorite multicolored-robe-sporting Dallas-based 23-tet greatly improved on its original idea... read more
Signs of Life 2004
While it’s easy to imagine the sounds of Holland’s second album floating from your grandma’s old phonograph, there’s little nostalgia here... read more
Signs of Life 2004
After a decade of toiling in relative obscurity as indie-rock torchbearers, Modest Mouse finally garnered mainstream success... read more
Signs of Life 2004
It’s one of those enigmas of music when moody, downcast songs somehow uplift our spirits... read more
Signs of Life 2004
We all needed more music like the title track to Have a Little Faith this year... read more
Signs of Life 2004
Don’t expect the delightfully seasick electronica of Midlake’s debut to promptly throttle you with its brilliance. It’s one of those humble accomplishments that shuffles its feet about... read more
Signs of Life 2004
While no Irishman himself, LaMontagne’s sandpaper-silky croon places him squarely between Astral Weeks-era Van Morrison and Damien Rice... read more
Signs of Life 2004
It’s not every young crooner with a guitar who can out-emote Dolly Parton on the country legend’s own “Jolene”... read more
stellastarr*'s Shawn Christensen Gets Deep On Art and Music
Prior to becoming lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for NYC-based ’80s pop, post-punk band, stellastarr*, Shawn Christensen was (and remains) a professional painter... read more
Woven Hand
No matter how much he’s come to represent the best of distinctively American art, Johnny Cash remains one of the most unusual icons... read more
R.E.M.
“It’s happened like, three times over the last couple years,” says R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe. “I’m sitting in a café or a restaurant... read more
Tom Perrotta's Suburban Distopia
Short, with graying hair and an athletic build, Tom Perrotta enters a Starbucks in Belmont, the Boston suburb... read more
Finding Forster
Marc Forster understands pain. It’s knowledge he’s had since childhood, when a globetrotting mother and physician father left him... read more
The Ocean Blue
When The Ocean Blue released its self-titled debut in 1988, it was my favorite thing to come out of Hershey, Penn., since those little aluminum-wrapped bundles of joy... read more
The Sweet Rush of Sugarland
Sugarland dashed onto the country-music landscape with the infectious, bounding energy of a toddler on a candy-bar high... read more
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